As it usually goes, take the most tone deaf, stupid and annoying comment and portray it to be what either the left or right actually is planning to do. Never take the smartest comment from the side you are against. Partisan people will be confused just on what side you are on.

Yes, fascist scaremongering happens especially when a new right-wing party wins, yet that usually subdues when the actual government does the usual day-to-day governing (the good example of this was earlier mentioned Meloni administration in Italy). But it's alarming when the criticism becomes many times stronger and louder. Or then when people literally start to be afraid.

Or then when people literally start to be afraid. — ssu

Certainly this bit is the issue for me. Outside of this forum (well, not quite, but as a matter of comparison to us) there's a fairly stark divide between people who can adequately parse information in front of them and intellectualize and those who cannot. Unfortunately, this seems about a 35/65% split. So most people get scared irrationally. This is usually obvious in their response to whatever scares them.. such is the nature of social media. We used to just never see those reactions.